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Hi, I have set up VLC and have got it successfully streaming audio to my local network. I can go to other computers around then network and recieve the streams with either mplayer, xine, or VLC no problems.

But when I try to stream multiple files, eg a playlist, or just select a few songs, at the end of each song the computer recieving the stream will drop the stream so I have to press play or reload the stream after every song.
In preferences, there is a setting that will "keep stream output open" which I have selected but this only makes Mplayer stay open. It still wont play the next song.

If I try to stream an audio cd, the recieving computer will stay open even when I change tracks on the server but if I am streaming tracks off the hard drive, the recieving computer drops the stream every time.

If anyone has got around this problem id love to here how as this is a pretty good program to use otherwise.

I'm not sure if you've setup your stream with the wizard, of if you've built it from the cli, but I've been streaming with vlc for a number of years; I know it took me a while to 'get the cli "just right"', but here it is: